Quotes of: Avowed Keyword

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

Charles Babbage

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Victor Hugo

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

Hélène Cixous

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.

Elihu Root

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

George Weinberg

It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.

Eisaku Sato

A girl's body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed.

Darker Still

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.

Lady Susan

When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and pri...

Susan B. Anthony

You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as...

Rachel Cusk

The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or ...

Hitch-22: A Memoir

I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of...

Christopher Hitchens

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less ? tha...

The Complete Stories and Poems

Although upon doctrines of grace our views differ from those avowed by Arminian Methodists, we have usually found that on the great evangelical truths we are in full agreement, and we have been comforted by the belief that Wesleyans were solid upon t...

The Sword and the Trowel: Works of C. H. Spurgeon in His Magazine, 1865-66-67

You try getting any sympathy when you tell your best friends how much the self-avowed sadist broke your heart, how much pain she put you through. — Ivan E. Coyote to --------, 2004 (age 35)

Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets

So much enthusiasm about the non-existence of God is somewhat bewildering, as no one appears to be nearly as excited about a similar absence of belief in unicorns, vampires, werewolves, astrology, nation-building, or the Labor Theory of Value. Nor is...

Vox Day

Possibly there are few imaginative writers who have not a leaning, secret or avowed, to the occult. The creative gift is in very close relationship with the Great Force behind the universe; for aught we know, may be an atom thereof. It is not strange...

The Bell In The Fog & Other Stories

October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained...

The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

Then I shall tell you the truthful answers to the questions you asked, about my own intentions and motivations. They are not so simple."... He cocked an eyebrow and his cobalt eyes took on a playful sparkle. "If I were to avow that you are my immorta...

Pirate's Alley

I want an avowed atheist in the White House. When time comes to push that button, I want whoever's making the decision to understand that once it's pushed, it's over. Finito. They're not gonna have lunch with Jesus. Won't be deflowering 72 virgins on...

Quentin R. Bufogle